Dogs be­come dan­ger­ous on­ly when they are pro­tect­ing their own­ers or are trained by crim­i­nals (gangs, ban­dits) to at­tack any­one. My broth­er has six Dober­man dogs that are lov­ing pets and guard dogs for my par­ents who are pen­sion­ers ages 76 and 66 years old. Their neigh­bours have been vic­tims of rob­bery on more than one oc­ca­sion. Re­cent­ly, the po­lice ar­rest­ed a rob­ber in con­nec­tion to a bur­glary next door to my par­ents' home. The bur­glar got six months prison time. The dogs are a de­ter­rent since we do not have gun laws for law-abid­ing cit­i­zens to pro­tect our­selves from crim­i­nals.Just imag­ine a res­i­dent of Mar­aval who re­sides alone has been a vic­tim of theft by his own neigh­bour. The so-called neigh­bour sends her gar­den­er/handy­man to steal her neigh­bour's av­o­ca­dos every year.

Re­cent­ly, a po­lice re­port was made about this same neigh­bour who tres­passed again, this time send­ing her gar­den­er to cut down the man's av­o­ca­do tree and an­oth­er neigh­bour's man­go tree. What do you think about? Law en­force­ment of­fi­cers should be giv­en ap­proval by Gov­ern­ment to first take in­to con­sid­er­a­tion who are dog own­ers. Many dogs will be aban­doned and left by the road­side by own­ers who can­not af­ford to in­sure their pets. If crime was un­der con­trol then we could sleep a lit­tle bet­ter and feel a bit safer in our homes. Since that is not the case we need our dogs to pro­tect us from crim­i­nals. Dog own­ers should how­ev­er se­cure there prop­er­ty and dis­play a "dan­ger­ous dog" or "be­ware of the dog" sign on their gate.

Eve Gon­za­les

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